CELF is an interdisciplinary center where
anthropologists, applied linguists, education
specialists, and psychologists study how
working parents and their children approach the challenges
of balancing the demands of work, school,
and family life using detailed, ethnographic
research of everyday life. The center has four aims:

1) detailed, ethnographic
research on the home life of middle class working families

2) creation of a digital
archive of everyday family life

3) providing research training
opportunities for scholars of family life